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Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of September 30
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Israel-Hamas war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
Please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
It’s ironic (or emblematic?) that the only confirmed casualty from Iran’s retaliatory strike was a Palestinian citizen.
Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah (Washington Post)
It’s mostly a recap, but here are the bits that seemed to be new:
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An odd one here, Yazidi woman freed by US (Israel?) after operation in gaza.
Hamas doesn't even like ISIS, I'm guessing this must have been hidden completely from the public view for it to be happening for 10 years on a single person, And in gaza of all places. Some other sources seem to say she was held captive by Hamas, but I'm unsure. I did see this on reddit and people went into the 'well they're gazan so they do that all the time' type stereotype so...
EDIT: It seems like other articles have additional details which are not mentioned by the Reuters article at all. Hmm...
As war and religion rages, Israel’s secular elite contemplate a ‘silent departure’ | The Guardian
How the U.S. Worked Overtime to Deliver Weapons to Israel. This one has too many lines to highlights, I'd practically be posting the whole article here, so instead I'm just gonna leave the link.
This is a Twitter thread from Reuters' deputy US foreign policy editor. I'm pasting it in full below:
I don't mean to restart discussion of it (the lock was justified, I feel), but is this still being considered? It's been a while.
I think the only person who can answer that is @Deimos. Calling this the Israel-Hamas war megathread is even sillier than it was then, given that most of the news now is about Israel's attacks on/invasion of Lebanon.
Not as silly as calling it the “Gaza Genocide megathread”
I feel like your comment is probably bait, but I'll ask. Why do think that it's a worse name for the thread?
You've almost got a point together about the expansion of the war outside the Gaza strip.
But playing the "both sides" card on genocide? Suggesting that acknowledging this genocide would somehow be hate speech against Jewish people? You're trying to start an argument with comments like that.
Is your experience limited to a very particular sphere? There are plenty of people who acknowledge it as a genocide who are extremely careful to frame their opinions with distance from and disdain for antisemitism. Believing that a country is doing something wrong does not extended to a hatred for its people and that applies even moreso for people belonging to a religious or ethnic group around the world who have no personal connection to that country or its government.
These are the well-thought "replies to others" you're asking me to read to adequately assess your thoughts before calling you hopelessly propagandized? Seriously?
Luckily for those of us not living with extreme cognitive dissonance, IDF soldiers and Finance Minister Smotrich are clearly documenting the State of Israel's genocidal intent. We are not in need of someone who logs in twice a month to talk about Elon Musk or defend Israel to try to gaslight us about what a genocide is.
They get their opinions from the U.S. State Department
iirc my suggestion was just "Gaza megathread", though now it should probably have a broader title or just cease to exist
The linked post has a broader array of requests than that specific title.
You've said that describing the conflict as or as including a genocide is "dumb" and "silly", which are just insults only conveying you don't like the idea. You've said it would be divisive - I have a bit more respect for the users who proposed the change, that they were being careful not to be divisive while insisting on a more factual description. What you have not said is why it would be incorrect to do it.